Against Alternatives

An opposing view was hard to come up with for my blogging topic, which is contributors to medicine. In my English class we worked in groups to help each other figure out an opposing viewpoint. For mine, after me and my partner read my blog post on acupuncture multiple times she came up with the view point of people not believing in alternative forms of medicine.  Again alternative forms of medicine means there are no uses of drugs or chemicals and no invasive surgeries. Everything is mainly all natural for example the use of shark skin.

I can understand why people would not believe in some alternative forms of medicine such as acupuncture. Acupuncture cannot be scientifically explained as I stated in my previous blog post. The whole mechanism believed at work is that the body reacts to substances in the needles. A person opposing alternative medicine couldn’t help but wonder what substances is the body reacting to if there are no drugs or chemicals involved. That mechanism alone could make you wonder if acupuncture is really an alternative form or not.

Some people could choose not to believe that alternative forms of medicine work because like I said about acupuncture, there is rarely any scientific research to back up what is believed to be the result of the treatment. To be forward another reason could be that we have these medical hospital and research hospitals for a reason. In the hospitals there is better equipment and people who have studied all types of diseases and disorders to know how to control whatever health problem is going on with the patient. In these hospitals there is never one person doing all the research on a patient, there are multiple doctors, nurse, etc., who specialize in different areas of health who dedicate their time to the patient.